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While much has changed in Washington over the past 50 years, the presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin says Johnson did make it a priority to interact with lawmakers to an extent that Obama has not.

"He would call them at 6 a.m.," Goodwin said of Johnson. "He'd have them for lunch, he'd have them for dinner. If he called and the husband wasn't there, he'd tell the wife to get her husband to support the bill."